Many years ago, I had read about the idea of pill-splitting to save money. For many medications that come as tablets or pills, it's possible to split them in half (either with a knife or a specialized pill-splitting device) and take a half-dose at a time. The cost saving is based on several assumptions:

* that the pill can readily be split in half. For pills that come as scored tablets, it's easy; for others, it may or may not be easy to split them into two equal halves without them crumbling...